Category: Multiliteracies
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Congrats to Gene Yang!
For the long delay, I apologize, but I wanted to share the news that one of the teachers who presented a workshop for us this summer, Gene Yang, has been selected as a finalist for the National Book Award. Hooray! Gene Luen Yang American Born Chinese First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck About the Book This graphic…
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Whoa! Zotero
Goodbye 3×5 cards. No, really, this time I mean that you must get rid of these cards and jump feet first into the web-based research revolution. Easybib was cool, but this is awesome. I just downloaded and installed Zotero, a Firefox extension. Here is part of the press release from the Center for History and…
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Re: Does Wikipedia hurt scholarship?
So, the wiki debate continues. In the latest issue of AFT’s American Teacher, the pro and con discussion of the month is about Wikipedia. Here, in very stark terms, are what I consider to be very traditional views about the academic research process (Anderson) juxtaposed with a more reasonable interpretation of research, collaboration, and the…
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Learning Chinese as a Critical, Multiple Literacy
The Chinese Immersion Program that my daughter is enrolled in has been featured in the local media over the past few days, mostly due to the fact that US DOE officials were in town. Here is a clip from the newspaper. The Lansing School District will expand its new Chinese immersion preschool into a full…
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Comments on “Learning a language to welcome the future”
Like many of you, I have read The World is Flat, and — while I agree with many of the points that Friedman makes in the text — I have been searching for a more nuanced argument, beyond reasons of pure economics, about how and why our children should become more technically proficient and multilingual,…
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Comments on "Learning a language to welcome the future”
Like many of you, I have read The World is Flat, and — while I agree with many of the points that Friedman makes in the text — I have been searching for a more nuanced argument, beyond reasons of pure economics, about how and why our children should become more technically proficient and multilingual,…